National

Circus Review: High Performance Packing Tape (Adelaide Festival)
Suspense and delight are always centre stage in this performance, demonstrating artistry that knows how to provoke its audience.

Roadies in crisis: industry operating at just 4% pre-COVID levels
Over 20,000 live production crew, aka roadies, found themselves out of work a year ago when mass gatherings were banned.…

Urgency and care: the flag markers of contemporary exhibition making
From a longing for home to a national snapshot of the new, two exhibitions explore care and belonging from a…

Exhibition Review: PHOTO 2021
A photography festival that celebrates artists from a vast range of backgrounds, experience, and stages in their artistic careers.

Exhibition Review: Redemption of Colour, Canberra Glassworks
Chaseling’s Redemption of Colour encourages a broader audience to immerse themselves in the joy of colour and light.

Celebrating First Nations women and promoting national narratives
New exhibitions at Hazelhurst Arts Centre present inspiring stories and images of female resilience and creativity.

Music Review: Diana Doherty and Streeton Trio
The old, the new, the obscure and the odd.

Opera Review: Lorelei, Opera Queensland
Opera Queensland's Lorelei is an intoxicating mix of musical, opera, cabaret and burlesque.

What getting Aboriginal art advocacy right looks like
Desart does professional development well – from a mentoring Photography Art Prize, to nurturing business skills for arts centres, and…

Rebelling against the norm to thrive as a creative
At Pause Fest’s Why Creativity Matters panel, professionals from fields including advertising, design and technology discuss the value of being…